Building a News Aggregating Site in Joomla!
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Timi Ogunjobi | May 2010 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source PHP Web Development
Bad news is always good news for the press. This is why Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this fact and creates a website that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. In this article by Timi Ogunjobi, author of Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints, the content of the site will be entirely derived from Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds from several sources (each feed being automatically fetched and its items displayed on the website).
Weird Hap'nins requirements will be the need to:
- Get external feed sources and allocate them to menu links on the website
- Create the means to automatically fetch and display article items located in the feeds
- Display the latest content from all feed sources on the front page
Organizing your Content Effectively using Joomla 1.5- A Sequel
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Eric Tiggeler | March 2010 | Joomla!
In this article series by Eric Tiggeler, author of Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide, you'll:
- Understand how to translate a basic site map to a workable blueprint for a Joomla!-based site
- Design a clear, scalable framework for your content, grouping your content with sections and categories
- Use uncategorized pages to build sites that don't require a multi-level content
Read Organizing your Content Effectively using Joomla 1.5 here.
Read Organizing your Content Effectively using Joomla 1.5- A Sequel in fullPreventing Attacks on Joomla! 1.5 Websites
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James Kennard | March 2010 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source
In this article by James Kennard, author of Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development, we will investigate some of the more common forms of attack and how we can prevent them from affecting our extensions and we will take a look at how we can deal with users whom we believe to be attackers.
Read Preventing Attacks on Joomla! 1.5 Websites in fullOrganizing your Content Effectively using Joomla 1.5
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Eric Tiggeler | March 2010 | Joomla!
In this article series by Eric Tiggeler, author of Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide, you'll:
- Understand how to translate a basic site map to a workable blueprint for a Joomla!-based site
- Design a clear, scalable framework for your content, grouping your content with sections and categories
- Use uncategorized pages to build sites that don't require a multi-level content
Managing Menus in Joomla! 1.5: Part 2
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Eric Tiggeler | February 2010 | Beginner's Guides Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP Web Development
In this article series by Eric Tiggeler, author of Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide, you'll learn how you can help the visitor to find what they want easily on your website by designing clear and easy navigation through menus.
Here, you'll learn the following:
- Adding a new menu
- Creating submenus
- Adjusting menu module settings
- Creating hyperlinks in article texts
Read Managing Menus in Joomla! 1.5: Part 1 here.
Read Managing Menus in Joomla! 1.5: Part 2 in fullManaging Menus in Joomla! 1.5: Part 1
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Eric Tiggeler | February 2010 | Beginner's Guides Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP Web Development
In this article series by Eric Tiggeler, author of Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide, you'll learn how you can help the visitor to find what they want easily on your website by designing clear and easy navigation through menus.
Here, you'll learn the following:
- Adding a new menu
- Creating submenus
- Adjusting menu module settings
- Creating hyperlinks in article texts
Managing Image Content in Joomla!
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Allan Walker | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Next to text content, images are one of the most utilized multimedia resources in web pages. They can be used to inform and educate the reader, offer help with navigation, and to enhance the design and user's overall visual experience.
Whether you need to create multimedia image galleries in your Joomla! website or simply add images to your articles and modules, this article will provide the assistance to help utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. In this article by Allan Walker, author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, we look at:
- Creating image galleries and slideshows
- Template images
- Joomla! Image Extensions
- Browser support and accessibility for images
Adding Image Content in Joomla!
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Allan Walker | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Next to text content, images are one of the most utilized multimedia resources in web pages. They can be used to inform and educate the reader, offer help with navigation, and to enhance the design and user's overall visual experience.
This article by Allan Walker, author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, will provide the assistance to help utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. We look at:
- Why we use images in websites
- Image formats and which ones to use
- Including images in articles and modules
Building a Calender Application in Joomla! using Fabrik
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Suhreed Sarkar | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Joomla! has many extensions that can help develop a custom application, especially simple form-based applications. With introduction of Content Construction Kits (CCK) now it is possible to create many types of contents without knowledge of coding PHP. Besides these newly introduced Content Creation Kits, there is another application builder for Joomla! that can be used to build database applications without coding PHP. It is called Fabrik. Fabrik is Joomla! application builder that can be used for building many types of applications. In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, we will learn how to build a event calendar application for Joomla! using Fabrik.
Read Building a Calender Application in Joomla! using Fabrik in fullManaging Your Joomla! Media Files with Media Manager
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Allan Walker | January 2010 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source PHP
This article by Allan Walker, author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, explores one of the most important tasks when using multimedia in our Joomla! websites, the ability to upload and manage the files on your web server. Once uploaded, this content may not require further attention, or you might need the ability for constant management and file revisions.
In this article, we will look at using the built-in Joomla! Media Manager which includes:
- Overview of the Joomla! Media Manager
- Uploading media using the Media Manager
- The view
- Organizing your content
- Uploading your content
- Managing media using the Media Manager
